[Nsi-wg] orientation

[Henrik Thostrup Jensen]

Hi Guy

On Wed, 23 Jan 2013, Guy Roberts wrote:

> Looking up my documentation on orientation I see that I came up with this definition:
> 
> Orientation
> 
> ·         Orientation attribute is used to assign a direction to a bidirectional STP to remove
> ambiguity when performing path computation.  Orientation type is ingress or egress. 
> Ingress/Egress is relative to the Network.

OK. (After a bit of thinking I convinced myself that it is indeed not 
needed for unidirectional).

> See the attached document for discussion, but I think that we can drop 
> the orientation attribute as there are other ways of solving the 
> problem.

I agree. We can either specify it explicitely, or make a default.

IMHO the only option that makes sense as a default is to connect the port 
inwards (in the other case, one just uses the demarcation point).


     Best regards, Henrik

  Henrik Thostrup Jensen <htj at nordu.net>
  Software Developer, NORDUnet